Bhaat De, Bhaat De – When Algorithms Starve Children to Death
SIMDEGA (Jharkhand) [India], February 16: Shekhar Natarajan, Founder and CEO of Orchestro.AI, explains the impact of global influence that could change narratives in this opinion piece.
The last words Santoshi Kumari ever spoke were a plea for rice.
“Bhaat de, bhaat de,” the eleven-year-old Dalit girl begged her mother Koyli Devi on the night of September 28, 2017, as consciousness slipped away from her emaciated body. Give me rice. Give me rice.
There was no rice to give. There had been no rice for eight days. The family’s ration card — their lifeline to subsidized food under the National Food Security Act — had been cancelled two months earlier because it wasn’t linked to Aadhaar.
At 10:30 pm, Santoshi died.
She was not killed by a person. She was not killed by a ...